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Getting your baby to sleep, by Sophie Transler, paediatric nurse
What advice would you give to a young mother in a maternity unit to help her get both herself and her baby to sleep?
"First of all, I would advise her never to wake her child up for any reason and to respect their sleeping rhythms. The mother will gradually adapt her sleeping rhythms to those of her child, without trying to impose her own pattern on them. She could, for example, rest at the same time as her child. This way, she will be able to fit in with her child. She should also allow her child to find a comfortable position for falling asleep in – they will try and recreate the sensations they had in their mother's womb."
Does the parents' attitude have any influence on how babies sleep?
"Yes, parents must respect their child's sleep. And they shouldn't run to them when they cry a little – they may be in the dream phase. If they settle down in the next few minutes, it means they were dreaming and should be left to calm down on their own. If they really need something, they will continue to cry and the parents will know that they are calling them.
Picking them up or disturbing them unnecessarily runs the risk of disrupting their rhythm and creating a need. Nor is it necessary to be completely silent when the baby is sleeping; on the contrary, they may be reassured by hearing their parents' voices from the next room. But you should not make more noise than your baby might have been exposed to when they were in their mother's womb."
Should a mother feed her baby every time they cry? Is there a particular time when they should stop feeding them during the night?
"Over the first few days, yes, and especially when breastfeeding – the quantities of milk produced are still low and are quickly digested. So it is entirely normal for the baby to be hungry 90 minutes to 2 hours after a feed.
But when they are a week old, mothers should think about other reasons for their crying before automatically breast- or bottle-feeding them: they may have a dirty nappy, they may be too hot, they may have colic… or perhaps they just need a cuddle, etc.
Up to the age of 3 months, it is normal for them to wake up feeling hungry during the night. If they are still crying during the night after 6 months, it may be that they are not eating enough during the day."
Can breastfeeding on demand lead to sleeping disorders?
"No, because the child knows exactly when and how hungry they are. The main problem is finding out why they are crying. Mothers have to learn to recognize their child's cries and eliminate all other possible causes before coming to the conclusion that they are hungry. This is particularly important if the child has colic or reflux, because breastfeeding will calm them down for a while, but the problem will return in an hour or so. Meals don't have to be strictly scheduled, but a balance should be found: yes to breastfeeding on demand, but no to bottle feeding every time the baby cries!"
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Occasionally, on a few of my Power Memory cards, some sort of 1-5 block corrupt save file with a gibberish file name like "yyyyyyyy" would appear at the bottom of the save file list. I was wondering if this was a legitimate save file that became corrupt or were the save files on the card still safe and this new corrupt "save file" was a new addition?
I also get situations where the console detects the Power Memory card but it shows as having 0 blocks available, even though it is completely empty and to fix it, I would need to erase the card completely, using the system menu.
In the meantime, I have written down how many save files are on each Power Memory card so the next time it happens, I'll know for sure what happened. Ideally, I would like a brand new Power Memory but Sega products, like most Nintendo products don't come sealed so it's hard to determine whether a new item is in fact, new. The best alternative is probably to back up the save files (i.e. to another Power Memory, or three, just to be sure).
Also just to confirm, am I correct to say that the official Japanese Power Memory cards have flash-based RAM while unofficial American etc ones uses batteries like the CR2032 that the console itself uses (i.e. if the battery dies, the save files on the memory card dies with it)?
And another thing, what constitutes proper Power Memory handling/use? I guess that the proper method is to insert the Power Memory into the slot before turning on the console, and to not remove/desert it while it is on. I confess that, true to my username, I sometimes get lazy and "hot swap" or "plug and play" it while the console is running (seems to work). Any corruption on the memory card would probably develop this way. Alternatively, I might swap the Power Memory cards while holding the reset button. Not sure if that's any better or worse.

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Ghana's private sector cannot promote employment creation and slow the rate of unemployment if businesses do not have the capacity to borrow, expand and retool, says Terence Darko, President of the Ghana Employers Association (GEA).
According to him, employer-employee relation is no longer the most serious issue in improving Ghana's business environment, but access to and cost of credit for businesses to achieve their objectives.
"Many businesses are suffering because the cost of borrowing is such that they are unable to go for the loans and facilities that will help them expand and retool their businesses", Mr. Darko told a business forum in Kumasi.
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When it comes to covering activist gatherings, corporate media have established clear standards: Numbers don't count nearly as much as politics do.
Last fall, when tens of thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists and their allies marched on Washington in a grassroots rally for equality, media gave it far less coverage than the similarly sized, largely corporate-funded Tea Party protest in Washington just a month earlier (Extra!, 12/09).
So it came as little surprise that the Tea Party Convention this February would get more coverage than the June U.S. Social Forum, five days of strategizing, organizing and activism inspired by the World Social Forum launched in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2001. What was a little shocking, though, was just how stark the difference was. The Social Forum, in Detroit, drew an estimated 15,000-20,000 progressive activists from around the country, while the Tea Party Convention in Nashville hosted a meager 600 attendees. Two activist gatherings striving for political and social change, one at least 25 times larger than the other-but the smaller one got all the media coverage. Across 10 major national outlets in the two weeks surrounding each event, the Tea Party got 177 mentions to the Social Forum's three. (Per participant, the Tea Party got 1,500 times as many mentions.)
It was almost a total blackout for the USSF. Aside from local coverage, the only corporate media mentions found in the Nexis database came from Glenn Beck (Fox News, 6/29/10, 6/30/10)-warning viewers about "socialists and communists coming out of the woodwork to co-opt the youth and spread a dangerous disease"-and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, a guest on John King's CNN show (6/30/10).
Not one major newspaper outside of Michigan covered the story. Time and Newsweek ignored it. The Associated Press didn't run a single story on its newswire.
Of course, many alternative journalists did cover the huge event, including prominent reporting from Inter Press Service (e.g., 6/25/10).
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By contrast, in the two weeks surrounding the February Tea Party Convention, the right-wing gathering got 12 mentions in the Washington Post, eight in the New York Times, seven in the L.A. Times and four in USA Today. CNN mentioned the convention 71 times, Fox News 27, MSNBC 19, ABC 21, and CBS and NBC four. Politico (2/12/10) reported that CNN sent a crew of 11 to cover it; soon after the convention, the Washington Post assigned a reporter to "make sure the movement's covered fully in its pages" (Politico, 3/12/10).
In Detroit, the USSF was too big to ignore; the local alt-weekly, the Metro Times (6/23/10), even dedicated a front cover to it. The two daily papers, the Detroit Free Press (e.g., 6/20/10) and Detroit News (e.g., 6/23/10), for the most part offered respectful coverage of an event that brought a boost to the decimated Detroit economy. But Nolan Finley, editorial page editor of the News, mocked the gathering (6/20/10): "This ain't no tea party. The forum is a hootenanny of pinkos, environuts, peaceniks, Luddites, old hippies, Robin Hoods and urban hunters and gatherers. In other words, a microcosm of the Obama administration."
Finley seemed only to be giving colorful voice to the unspoken thoughts of most corporate journalists. The Social Forum certainly wasn't the Tea Party; it was a gathering of people whose voices are routinely discounted by the media gatekeepers, no matter how big a hootenanny they can muster. When one side has 600 people (and one Sarah Palin) pushing the fiscal conservatism beloved by corporate media bigwigs, and the other has 20,000 challenging the neoliberal status quo and highlighting the struggles of the working class and people of color, journalists don't need to be told how to do the math.
Sidebar: The Spurning of Atlanta The non-coverage was essentially a repeat of the first U.S. Social Forum in 2007, which drew some 12,000 activists and not a single major newspaper or television reporter outside its host city of Atlanta. (Two local AP reporters did file stories on the wire that year-7/27/07.)
The Boston Banner, Boston's African-American weekly paper, published two in-depth pieces (6/28/07, 7/5/07), and other smaller papers like the Albuquerque Journal (6/21/07) and the Miami Times (7/4/07) also ran articles. The local Augusta Chronicle (7/2/07) declared that the "Forum Shows Far Left's Faults," concluding: "Until those on the far left begin to sacrifice their priorities for the sake of gaining power as a group, the republic seems safe. The revolution barely sputters."


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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
• Floyd Landis does his best Jose Canseco impression on Nightline: "Rather than go into the entire detail of every single time I've seen it, yes, I saw Lance Armstrong using drugs."
• No sir, the NBA does not like it when you discuss a former Miami Heat forward's waning lust for the sticky icky icky.
• The mighty Kansas City Royals keep A-Rod from his well-deserved asterisk, if but for a day.
• In Floyd Mayweather's defense, an Antonio "Plaster of Tijuana Knuckles" Margarito bout is comparable to cockfighting. Money should've manned up and claimed $60 million to fight the Filipino Stallion in November like Margarito will, though.
• The unemployment line could grow by 340+ pounds if Jim Gray doesn't take up the Shaq cause posthaste.
• Tom Brady is none too happy with his measly $6.5 million contract. Yet Sean Penn is still wasting his time in Haiti. The nerve. Of Penn. Tahm's a Gahd.
• America moves ever-so-closer to ESPN's CP3 Telethon. Orlando, New York? New York, Orlando?
• Brian Urlacher is a neo-Nazi? No. Jay Cutler is a ladyboy? Yes.
• In this corner, Chone Figgins. In that corner, whomever the Mariners manager is. The news? "Milton Bradley was good."
• Bob Huggins has fallen. Into a coffee table. In Las Vegas. (H/T JovanJ)
• And finally, from the "Hickey's biased coverage" files: Notre Dame announces three-game rivalry renewal with the South Florida Penal System. Carlos Zambrano gets Ryno's blessing, while Tebow gets Elway's.
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Illumina Inc. is launching what it bills as the world's first genomics incubator, saying it has teamed up with technology billionaire Yuri Milner and Silicon Valley Bank to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in startups.
The San Diego maker of genome sequencing equipment said that it plans to offer aspiring genomics businesses both funding and access to lab equipment. Work would take place in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Illumina (Nasdaq: ILMN) announced the Illumina Accelerator Program on Feb. 12. It set a May 16 deadline for applicants who would begin their six-month stays in the incubator on Aug. 1. Illumina says its plans two six-month sessions per year.
Up to three aspiring companies could occupy the incubator. Illumina said that participating companies will receive $100,000 in convertible notes, $100,000 worth of sequencing reagents and sequencing instrument access, and a credit line worth $20,000.
Milner, who is offering convertible notes to prospective tenants, is a Russian-born investor and founder of Digital Sky Technologies, which made investments in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon. Milner's more recent investments include the consumer genetics company 23andMe, according to TechCrunch's CrunchBase website.
The accelerator's tenants could be in businesses as diverse as agriculture, forensics, consumer genetics and diagnostics, said Mostafa Ronaghi, Illumina's senior vice president and chief technology officer, in a news statement.
Startups would get lab space in Illumina's planned research and development space in San Francisco's Mission Bay district, Illumina said.
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This week in new hires, Kara Getz joined the Senate Finance Committee as tax counsel; the Investment Company Institute named Michelle Mesack director, financial services policy; and Roberto Roffo went to Advisors Asset Management.
Also, Allegiance Marketing Group added five to its sales team, the Internal Revenue Service named four to assist its new acting commissioner, and OneAmerica promoted John Mason.
Senate Finance Welcomes Kara Getz as Tax Counsel
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., named Kara Getz as tax counsel for the committee, where she will work on taxation and pension issues.
Getz joins the committee from the office of Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., where she was tax counsel and legislative director, advising the congressman on taxation, pension and budget issues. Prior to joining Neal's office, she was chief counsel for the Senate Special Committee on Aging for Chairman Herb Kohl, D-Wis. Before that, she served as tax counsel for Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., for almost four years. Getz also has experience in the private sector.
Mesack Named Director, Financial Services Policy at ICI
The Investment Company Institute announced that Michelle Mesack has joined as director, financial services policy. She will report to Donald Auerbach and Dean Sackett III, chief government affairs officers and co-heads.
Mesack joined from the Mutual Fund Directors Forum, where she served as counsel, managing outreach to Congress and advocating for the forum's policy positions before regulatory agencies. Prior to that, she served as an associate with K&L Gates' investment management practice group. Earlier, she worked as a legislative assistant to Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., and as legislative analyst for the House Republican Conference.
Advisors Asset Management Appoints Roffo
Advisors Asset Management announced that it has hired Roberto Roffo as senior vice president and portfolio manager to expand its tax-exempt management capabilities, primarily with municipal fixed income strategies. He will be based in the firm's Princeton, N.J., office.
With more than 20 years of portfolio management experience, Roffo served for seven years as the managing director/senior portfolio manager of SMC Fixed Income Management. Earlier, he was the managing director at Claymore Advisors and director for Merrill Lynch Asset Management.
Allegiance Marketing Group Announces New Additions
Allegiance Marketing Group has announced five new additions to its sales team.
Michael Seabolt has joined as vice president of business development. Previously, he was president of Bolt Capital Consultants.
Ian McDowell has joined as a senior director of life sales. Earlier, he was the senior director of life sales for a nationally known field marketing organization.
Tobias Vogelsang joined as a director of business development. Previously, he served as a senior financial advisor/life and annuity specialist at Newbridge Securities.
Shelley Porter has joined as a recruiter. Prior to joining, she was the Internet sales manager for Earl Stewart Toyota of North Palm Beach.
Hunter Cray also joined as a recruiter. He was previously the assistant controller at Shamoun & Norman.
IRS Names Maloy, Grams, Fisher and O'Connor
The Internal Revenue Service announced that Heather Maloy, W. Todd Grams and David Fisher have been selected to assist Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner. In addition, Jennifer O'Connor will join the chief counsel's office.
Maloy will serve as deputy commissioner for services and enforcement. She spent more than three years as commissioner of the IRS large business and international (LB&I) division. From 2006 to 2009, Maloy served in private practice with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in its Washington, D.C., office. From 1994 to 2006, she held a wide variety of positions at the IRS, including associate chief counsel for both the income tax & accounting division and the passthroughs & special industries division. She also served as assistant to the commissioner, deputy associate chief counsel and acting deputy chief counsel.
Grams, named chief of staff, comes back to the IRS from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where he served since November of 2009 in roles that included executive-in-charge of the office of management, performance improvement officer and chief financial officer. He also served at the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from July 2006 to November 2009. Previously at the IRS, he was CIO from 2003 through 2006 and CFO from 2001 through 2003. Earlier, he served at VA from 1994 to 2000 as the first CFO of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). He served in a variety of positions at the Office of Management and Budget from 1983 to 1994. Fisher formerly served as the first permanent director of the Business Transformation Agency within the Department of Defense (DOD). He also held other leadership positions, including defense enterprise integration executive and special assistant to the deputy under secretary of defense (financial management). Prior to joining DOD, Fisher was managing drector with BearingPoint.
O'Connor, who will serve as a counselor to both Werfel and IRS Chief Counsel William Wilkins, most recently was a partner with Washington's Wilmer Hale law firm, where she has been since 2002.
OneAmerica Promotes Mason to SVP
OneAmerica Financial Partners announced that John Mason has been promoted to SVP. He was named CIO in 2012 and retains that title.
Mason has 27 years of investment experience with the OneAmerica companies. Prior to being named CIO, he served as vice president of the investments.
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This week, the U.S. Senate remembered Newtown.
Last Thursday morning, no Senate Republicans were actively talking to Democrats about gun legislation. GOP senators were piling on to a threatened filibuster. And top Senate aides quietly doubted whether they could even scrape together the 60 votes needed to begin debating the bill on the floor. While the president had recently declared "we have not forgotten" the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, even the most vocal advocates of gun control started to wonder if too much time had passed for the tragedy's emotional resonance to lead to the first major federal gun control legislation since the 1990s.
Majority Leader Harry Reid thanks members of the U.S. Senate who voted in favor of proceeding toward consideration of a firearm reform bill.
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Sitting in the gallery, crying with relief, were more than a dozen family members of the 20 young children and six educators killed on Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn.
"The tears that we had weren't tears of joy, but tears of remembering this is happening. We're here because of what happened to us," Jillian Soto, whose sister was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, told NBC News a few minutes after the 68-31 vote.
They were reprising on the national stage a role they played in Connecticut's state legislature, according to Democrat Chris Murphy, their home-state senator. Connecticut lawmakers just passed a ban on high-capacity magazines and added to its list of outlawed assault weapons.
"Four weeks ago, I was getting panicky phone calls from my friends in the state legislature telling me that the state legislature was not going to pass a ban on high capacity ammunition," Murphy said after the vote. "The Newtown families mobilized, and changed the calculus in Hartford. And I think that they are changing the calculus here as well."
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Prior to the first vote on gun reform in the U.S. Senate, Jillian Soto, Miya Rahamim and Carol Gardner join with other members of families of victims of gun violence as the names of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting are read aloud at the U.S. Capitol April 11, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Asked if their presence in Washington this week had helped contribute to the lopsided vote, Republican Sen. John McCain said: "Yes." It's a sentiment at least three other Republicans echoed in conversations over past several days.
"I might not vote the way they wanted me to vote, but giving them the chance to be heard, giving them a chance to tell their story meant a lot to them and it meant a lot to me," Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., said Tuesday after he met with the families. "I'm not going to vote for a filibuster. I think they deserve an up or down vote."
Not all the relatives of those killed at Newtown are supportive of new federal measures. One father appeared earlier this month at a National Rifle Association-sponsored event and spoke out against new gun laws.
Most Republicans and two Democrats still voted against opening debate on the bill, warning that the bill infringes on Americans' Second Amendment rights. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz warned that it would ultimately lead the country toward a national gun registry.
But for the family members who sat in the chamber and watched Thursday's vote, it was a relief.
The vote came after three days of quiet, unusual and emotional lobbying that began with a flight from Connecticut to Washington on Air Force One. They had attended Obama's emotional speech in Hartford, Conn., where he pleaded with Americans to urge Congress to debate and vote on new gun laws.
During their time on Capitol Hill, they met with members from both parties and with varied opinions on the gun control legislation the Senate is now set to debate -- from Cruz, who threatened a filibuster; to rank-and-file Democrats like Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia; to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., the broker of a critical compromise.
What they helped achieve was a subtle but marked shift in the prevailing mood on guns.
Late last week, senators backing new restrictions were privately worrying that a less dramatic piece of the gun bill -- a provision on gun trafficking -- was getting watered down by the gun lobby. The whole package seemed to be teetering; a pile of Republicans -- 14 in all, including top GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell -- signed on to support a filibuster.
Late Friday, there was word that Sen. Pat Toomey was working with Manchin on a deal that could possibly draw Republican support. But the conservative Pennsylvania Republican's office cautioned: He was also talking to Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, who by then had cooled on negotiations with Democrats. There was no deal yet. Senate leadership aides were warning the White House not to put too much stock in the discussions; they weren't optimistic that it would go very far.
Talks continued through the weekend. The NRA was constantly involved. On Sunday night, CBS News' "60 Minutes" aired a group interview with family members, who called on Congress to act -- or at least vote.
The president spoke in Connecticut Monday. The families had breakfast with Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday morning before coming to Capitol Hill.
Late that evening, Senate aides were quietly saying a compromise between Manchin and Toomey to expand background checks was close at hand. Toomey's participation in the deal reflects the political reality back home in Pennsylvania -- many of the state's swing voters live outside Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where gun control has wide support. He'll need those voters in 2016, when he's up for reelection -- and when the presidential race will mean more Democrats will probably turn out to vote.
By Wednesday morning, Toomey was on board and the deal was done-- and that afternoon, family members met first with Toomey and then with Manchin in his office.
"I'm a parent; I'm a grandparent," Manchin said in a near-whisper, choked up, when a reporter asked how the families had impacted his work. One of the parents offered him a tissue. Others in the group also began to cry.
Meanwhile, the GOP senators who were considering taking a stand against debating the gun bill on the floor -- Cruz, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah -- went silent. Two planned press conferences on guns were scheduled, then canceled. Privately, GOP leaders worried their public stand would do serious damage to the party.
There was no public filibuster. Instead, Republicans quietly objected to a procedural motion, trying to keep the Senate from formally opening debate on the gun bill.
"We should have 60 vote hurdles if they want to try to abridge the Second Amendment," Paul said Thursday.
The night before, the NRA put out a scathing letter opposing the background check compromise and threatening to dock lawmakers' ratings if they vote to end debate on the bill's final passage. But that didn't faze Toomey, an A-rated Republican, who said he wasn't surprised by the group's letter. The NRA also left lawmakers with the impression it wouldn't score the Thursday vote to start debating gun laws.
Thursday's vote to begin debate is likely the easiest part of an uncertain process. There are potentially dozens of hurdles before it reaches ultimate passage in the Senate. That's far from certain, with a number of Republicans who voted to start debate today warning that they might not support the final legislation. The Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, voted against starting debate on the gun bill in the first place.
For the bill's opponents, the best chance of defeating it could come by adding an amendment that would anger gun control groups and prompt Democrats to oppose the bill. In 2009, for example, a measure to require states to recognize concealed weapons permits from other states received 58 votes; the NRA has been pushing hard to add that into this bill.
The bill's future is even less certain in the House, controlled by Republicans. A bipartisan pair of congressmen -- Republican Peter King and Democrat Mike Thompson -- introduced an expanded background check bill in the House that mirrors the Senate compromise.
But the Connecticut families are vowing to maintain their presence on Capitol Hill throughout what their senators have warned will be a long process.
Said Soto, whose sister was killed: "This is one thing we needed done, and we're not going anywhere."
NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, Mike Viqueira, Frank Thorp, Luke Russert and Carrie Dann contributed to this report.


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The family of Harry Dunn have said a meeting with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab over the death of their son felt like a "publicity stunt" – as they confirmed they were launching civil action against the suspect in the case.
Harry, 19, was killed when his motorbike crashed into a car on August 27.
The suspect, 42-year-old Anne Sacoolas, reportedly married to a US intelligence official, was granted diplomatic immunity following the crash.
The car was thought to have been driving on the wrong side of the road after leaving RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire – a military base used by the US Air Force.
Mr Raab met Harry's mother, Charlotte Charles, and father, Tim Dunn, on Wednesday afternoon after having talks with US Ambassador Woody Johnson on Tuesday.
Speaking after the meeting, Harry's mother told reporters she felt "let down by both governments".
Meanwhile, the family's lawyer and spokesman Radd Seiger said Mr Raab had told them that prime minister Boris Johnson was intending to speak with US president Donald Trump.
"He [Mr Raab] said that could possibly be happening this evening and we welcome that, obviously," Mr Seiger said.
Mr Seiger also invited Mr Trump to have a conversation with the family about the issue.
"If meeting with President Trump would help us get a step closer to seek justice for Harry, to get justice for that boy who died that night needlessly, one of the most wonderful kids in our community, if that's what it takes then I will extend an invitation now to President Trump," Mr Seiger said.
"Meet us. Let's have a chat. Nobody wants to litigate."
Ms Charles told reporters: "I can't really see the point as to why we were invited to see Dominic Raab. We are no further forward than where we were this time last week.
"Part of me is feeling like it was just a publicity stunt on the UK government side to show they are trying to help.
"But, although he is engaging with us, we have no answers. We are really frustrated that we could spend half an hour or more with him and just come out with nothing."
Mr Seiger said they were engaging lawyers to take a civil case against Mrs Sacoolas in America.
"Our position is that she doesn't have immunity and that waivers are always granted in these circumstances," Mr Seiger told reporters in Westminster.
"Now we can disclose to you we have brought lawyers on board … We are going to Washington soon to help us get that justice for Harry."
Asked about his son by reporters, Mr Dunn became emotional and was supported by his family as he called him a "special boy".
"He was a beautiful boy, a beautiful lad, he had so many friends, he loved life, he loved his motorbikes, loved his football," he said.
"He didn't have a bad bone in his body, he just loved his family, he just loved everything.
"He was a special boy and I miss him like mad."
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Mr Raab and Northamptonshire Police have asked the US to consider waiving the immunity.
Prior to meeting the US Ambassador, Mr Raab raised the case in a telephone call with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
After Tuesday's meeting, a Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "The Foreign Secretary met the US Ambassador today and urged the US to reconsider its position and do the right thing by Harry Dunn's family."


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Samantha Cools Wins the ABA Grands and the Overall Girl Pro Title
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Sam was 2nd, 1st and 1st in her mains Sunday (November 28th) on her way to the Grand National title and the overall Girl Pro Title. (I think she is the first non American to win this title).
Big brother Ken was leading the first main in A pro when he fell and hurt his knee and had to settle for the 8th, half of the riders in the A pro main are turning AA in January. Awesome job by Sam and Ken at the worlds biggest BMX race. Sam and Ken's friend and training partner Bubba Harris pulled off one of the greatest comebacks, after falling in his first main he pulled off a couple of firsts and securing himself the ABA overall Pro title.
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Ernie Banks, 76, accentuates the positive at O'Brien Field
PEORIA — In Ernie Banks' world, there are no cloudy days.
The 76-year-old Mr. Cub, who visited O'Brien Field on Tuesday night, still possesses the perpetually sunny disposition he brought to the ballpark for his 19-year Chicago Cubs Hall of Fame career, which ended in 1971.
"This is a beautiful ballpark and a beautiful day," he said during a pre-game news conference. "Let's play two!"
That, of course, was Banks' signature line, born at the end of a brutally hot 1950s July game in the Wrigley Field clubhouse as his exhausted teammates eyed him angrily. Ernie didn't notice.
"I've been very fortunate in my life to spend (a career) with one organization, one city, one mayor, one owner and one park," he said. "I'm the only professional athlete to have done that."
In the non-Ernie world, he also played more games (2,528) than any major-leaguer in history without reaching the postseason.
"We haven't won the World Series since 1908," he said. "That's not a long time, is it? We could win this year. How would you like to see a World Series at Wrigley Field? It could be this year. I'm not a prophet, but it could be. Many teams in our division aren't playing that well."
Ask Banks about any topic and he'll offer a positive spin.
On Peoria: "I used to come down here all the time and watch the Caterpillar basketball games. Bob Michel's a good friend of mine. So is Pete Vonachen. You all have produced a lot of talent for the Cubs, Greg Maddux, Mark Grace. You all give inspiration to players to rise to the top."
On Barry Bonds: "He's just a wonderful player, a remarkable athlete. I talked to Hank (Aaron) today and said, 'You'd better move out of the way, there's going to be a new home run king soon.' He said, 'Oh, that's OK.' This is a huge record (Bonds) is going for. It'll be a big thing for baseball. I like him a lot."
On how many homers Banks would hit today: "I'd hit a lot less. The pitchers today can throw the ball hard and they're pretty hard to hit. You gotta be real quick, have a different swing. I had a big loop in my swing when I came up."
On becoming part of a new Cubs ownership: "I think about two things now — owning the Cubs and winning a Nobel Peace Prize. We could change the name of Wrigley Field to Banks Field. You all think I'm dreaming, but my life has always been a breed apart."
That's what a great attitude and some pretty fair talent will do.
Banks, an O'Brien Field guest of Merrill Lynch, conducted a pre-game on-field interview Tuesday with Chiefs broadcaster Nathan Baliva, signed some autographs and then sang Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the seventh-inning stretch.
For the record, Banks hit 512 home runs, 277 as a shortstop — a National League record. The 14-time All-Star won the NL Most Valuable Player Award twice and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977.
"I've had a joyous life," he said.
And then came this gem, ever hopeful of a Cubs World Series: "Take a journey with Ernie and have a ball in the fall."
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As a new VR photographer it is my aim to document as much of the town where i live and work, this is not for monetary gain but merely to bring the beauty of Sitges and Olivella to more people.
A 360 vr taken off the end of the breakwater in the beautiful village of Sitges, in Spain, this village once famed for its fishing is now a gay tourist spot just south of barcelona, within easy reach of the airport and with its own train station, famous for Carnival and its Fiesta Major in August. To the left of the breakwater is the sailing club and the main Sitges brachers, to the right is the famous old quarter leading down to San Sebastian and its quiet beautiful beach.


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Since the beginning of the London Olympics the Wi-Fi provided at many tube stations has been free, until now (29 January). Here's how to use the tube Wi-Fi by Virgin Media.
Like it or despise it, there is Wi-Fi broadband internet access at a large number of London's Underground tube stations. The service is provided by Virgin Media but is no longer free for anyone who wishes to get online on the tube.
Here's what you need to know about using the London Underground tube Wi-Fi network.
What stations can I use Wi-Fi at?
At the time of writing, Virgin Media has installed Wi-Fi at a total of 103 tube stations and has plans to add more throughout the year. The firm plans to reach a total of 120 stations by the end of March 2013.
At stations with available Wi-Fi users will be able to get online in ticket halls, on escalators, walkways and platforms. Stations with Wi-Fi installed will have a Wi-Fi Zone logo in the ticket hall and around the station.
Note. There is no Wi-Fi signal in tunnels, but device should automatically connect when you arrive at another station with Wi-Fi access.
The stations with internet access cover the majority of central London but there are a number of more remote stations with Wi-Fi too. To check the list of stations head to http://my.virginmedia.com/wifi/station-guide.html
How much does it cost?
If you're a Virgin Media, EE or Vodafone customer you can still use the internet on the tube for free. If you're not then you must buy a Wi-Fi Pass. The passes are priced at £2 per day, £5 per week and £15 per month. You can buy a Wi-Fi Pass online before travelling or from your device when you are at the tube station itself.
During February you can buy a three month pass for £15.
What devices can I use?
Any device which can connect to a regular Wi-Fi network should be able to access the tube Wi-Fi. This includes smartphones, tablets and laptops.
How do I connect?
Virgin Media customers
Once you're at a tube station with Wi-Fi access turn your Wi-Fi on and open your web browser. Choose Virgin Media on the Portal page and select whether you are a Virgin Media Broadband customer or Virgin Mobile Pay Monthly customer. Then log in with your Virgin Media user name and password.
Vodafone customers
Any Vodafone customers with internet as part of their contract are eligible for free Wi-Fi on the tube.
Users should connect in the same way as Virgin Media customers but choose the Vodafone option from the Portal page and log in with their My Vodafone details.
EE customers (including Orange and T-Mobile)
Customers need to send a text message to 9527. You will get a reply with a password. You can then use this password along with your mobile phone number to log into the Wi-Fi at tube stations via the Virgin Media Portal.
Can I use the Wi-Fi for whatever I want?
Since the Wi-Fi on the London Underground is a public network, Virgin Media may block certain content. The firm said content must be "suitable for young people to access themselves or to look at over someone else's shoulder."
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It's more than a simple invitation that the elect and community pray. There should be an address to the faith community, explaining for whom and what they should pray. Then the elect are addressed. Here's the text:
152. After the homily, the elect with their godparents come forward and stand before the celebrant.
The celebrant first addresses the assembly of the faithful, inviting them to pray in silence and to ask that the elect will be given a spirit of repentance, a sense of sin, and the true freedom of the children of God.
The celebrant then addresses the elect, inviting them also to pray in silence and suggesting that as a sign of their inner spirit of repentance they bow their heads or kneel; he concludes his remarks with the following or similar words:
Elect of God, bow your heads [kneel down] and pray.
The elect bow their heads or kneel and all pray for some time in silence. After the period of silent prayer, the community and the elect stand for the intercessions.
On occasion, I have seen the assembly invited to kneel as well, but I'm not entirely sure the practice is in keeping with the overall spirit of the rite. I've also seen the elect remain kneeling during the intercessions, which does seem in keeping with the prayers that are addressed to God on their behalf. Either way, this "some time" of silent prayer should be substantial. What do you think?


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Potapenko came from Wright State University, one of only two players to make the NBA from Wright State (by the way, check out this other guy Bill Edwards. Look at that shooting percentage, both from the field and on free throws! I'm astonished he didn't last longer than 3 games ;-). Vitaly would play his first 2.5 seasons in Cleveland before being acquired by the Celtics for Andrew DeClercq and their first round pick (which became Miller).
That next summer he was dealt along with Kenny Anderson and the corpse of Joe Forte for Vin Baker and Shammond Williams. Vitaly never went on to play more than 65 games in a year after that 02 campaign with the C's.
At the time I was happy with the trade to Boston. I remember scouring NBA rosters and looking to see which guy I thought would solidify the front line and give the Celtics an interior presence. He was the one guy I thought could really help. In hindsight, I wish there was a way that pick could've been lottery-protected. Andre Miller's always been a guy I wanted to play for the Celtics.
Jay Humphries, Potapenko is in the D League, as an Assistant Coach with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants. After retiring from the Spanish team MMT Estudiantes, Vitaly coached a bit at his old high school in Florida before having Jim O'Brien get him connected with the NBDL. For an interview with Potapenko from February 16th of this year, you can click here. It's actually somewhat informative as Vitaly said he retired because his knees hurt too much and he also speaks about newest Celtic Oliver Lafayette and ex-Celtic Dan Dickau (both of whom were affiliated with the Mad Ants). Later on in the interview, the interviewer talks with Vitaly about sounding a lot like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then Vitaly does his impression of Arnold, which is pretty entertaining and spot-on.
ADDENDUM**- As of 12/19/2010, Jim O'Brien hooked up Potapenko even further- he is now an assistant coach with the Pacers. First time I can think of a European guy becoming an NBA Assistant coach actually after his playing career is over. But that doesn't mean they can't still teach guys skills lol.
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Pulis raps Suarez for simulation
Stoke boss Tony Pulis labelled Liverpool striker Luis Suarez's conduct in the 0-0 draw at Anfield "an embarrassment" - and called on the FA to hand the Uruguay international a three-match ban.
Pulis was incensed by a blatant dive by Suarez toward the end of the game and again demanded the issue of simulation be looked at.
He told BBC Sport: "I thought Suarez again today...I've been on about people falling over and the one incident in the second half...it's an embarrassment being a professional footballer (and doing that)."
Pulis added: "He's a fantastic player, he's got great ability and he is the one player we were frightened to death of today, but doing things like that. Retrospective decisions are made on a Monday by the FA and they should be looking at this. Give him three games and he will stop falling over.
"What happens is that he puts pressure on the referee and every time he goes down you've got 40,000 Liverpool fans getting after the ref and I don't think that's right. I don't know how many times he has fallen over but the one in the penalty box is just an embarrassment and how he has not been booked I just don't know.
"I am concerned about the simulation and putting pressure on the ref. It's a tough enough job as it is. For professional footballers to be doing that is just not right and the PFA should start talking about it."
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers insisted he had not seen the Suarez incident but defended his player.
Rodgers said: "I haven't seen the incident so I can't really comment on it, but whatever Luis does there will always be a problem, whether it's media, referees or whatever. It gets brought up every week, it's something that is not new. I thought he was terrific today, some of his movement and combinations."
Rodgers admitted to being frustrated by the result, but was full of praise for his players for standing up to a physical Stoke side, but he did not believe the visitors had been over-physical.
He added: "No, they are a bunch of big men who make it difficult for you and there is no right or wrong way to play football. What I was proud of is our young guys stood up to that. It was a physical game today but no complaints from us. I thought maybe the referee didn't see it that way and didn't give some decisions he should have done."


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What is analytics?
Analytics is an encompassing and multidimensional field that uses mathematics, statistics, predictive modeling and machine-learning techniques to find meaningful patterns and knowledge in recorded data .
Today, we add powerful computers to the mix for storing increasing amounts of data and running sophisticated software algorithms – producing the fast insights needed to make fact-based decisions. By putting the science of numbers, data and analytical discovery to work, we can find out if what we think or believe is really true. And produce answers to questions we never thought to ask. That's the power of analytics.
Why is analytics important?
From the first known population data collection project by the Swedish government in 1749, to Florence Nightingale recording and analyzing mortality data in the 1850s, to British scholar Richard Doll's tobacco and lung cancer study in the 1950s, the analysis of data has fueled knowledge discovery for hundreds of years.
Each of the above scenarios required an answer to a heretofore unanswerable question. In the 1700s, the Swedes wanted to know the geographical distribution of their population to learn the best way to sustain an appropriate military force. Nightingale wanted to know the role that hygiene and nursing care played in mortality rates. Doll wanted to know if people who smoked were more likely to suffer from lung cancer.
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- What's happening now?
- What is likely to happen next?
With faster and more powerful computers, opportunity abounds for the use of analytics and big data. Whether it's determining credit risk, developing new medicines, finding more efficient ways to deliver products and services, preventing fraud, uncovering cyberthreats or retaining the most valuable customers, analytics can help you understand your organization – and the world around it.
More on analytics
- The Analytics Mandate (MIT Sloan Research Report)
- The Analytic Enterprise: How to become a data-driven company (SAS white paper)
- Moving Beyond Spreadsheets: Six Steps for Enabling Small and Midsize Businesses to Gain Data Insights (TDWI Checklist Report)
- From Data to Action (Harvard Business Review Insight Center Report featuring 30 articles from researchers and practitioners)
- Inside Sports Analytics: 10 Lessons for Business Leaders (Report by Thomas H. Davenport)
Popular analytic methods
There are three predominant types of analytics in use today.
- Descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics have been around the longest. Remember the Swedes in 1749? Tabulating population counts was an early foray into descriptive analysis – the summary of collected data points. These are the models that will help you understand what happened and why. There are still plenty of descriptive analytics in use today – everything from how many clicks a page receives to how many units are produced vs. how many are sold.
- Predictive analytics.Predictive analytics has surged in popularity. The desire to predict customer behavior has been a main driver. Increased computing power with the ability to run hundreds or thousands of models quickly – and widespread adoption of predictive techniques like support vector machines, neural networks and random forests – are bringing predictive analysis to the forefront of many organizations. These models use past data and predictive algorithms to help you determine the probability of what will happen next.
How to get the most value from analytics
Analytics is a widely used term. How do you figure out which analytics is right for your organization? Just like most trips, an analytics destination is a good place to start. Even if it's the most basic. You have to know where you want to go and what you want to see. And gather what's needed to get you there.
In today's analytics journey, you've got data. You've got computers. What do you do next? The first step is figuring out what problem you are trying to solve or what answers you are seeking. What part of your organization needs improving? What decisions need to be made? What is the goal of your analytics journey? More specifically, you may want to answer questions like these:
- How much should we charge for a particular item?
- Where should we locate a new manufacturing plant?
- Who gets the latest catalog or brochure?
- What interest rate should each customer receive?
- Why are we losing customers in a particular region?
With the right data and the appropriate analytical models, you'll be able to answer those questions and more. The opportunity to produce knowledge and insights has never been greater.
How to get started using analytics
Most likely, your analytical journey will involve a multidepartmental team effort. The analytical life cycle is iterative and interactive. Staff members with different backgrounds and skills should be involved at various stages of the process. For best results, organizations need to put people with the right skills in place and enable them to work together.
- A business manager identifies an issue or problem that requires analytics-driven insights, makes the business decision based on the analyses and monitors the returns from the decision.
- A business analyst conducts data exploration and visualization and works to identify key variables that influence outcomes.
- The IT and data management teams help facilitate data preparation, model deployment and monitoring.
- A data scientist or data miner performs more complex exploratory analysis, descriptive segmentation and predictive modeling.
- Some organizations are even creating roles for chief analytics officers and hiring more data scientists to support the increased desire for analytically based answers and insights.
Center your journey around an iterative life cycle
At SAS, we break the analytics journey down into more detailed, iterative steps, which we call the analytical life cycle.
- Identify the problem. Business units specify the need, scope, market conditions and goal related to the business question they want to solve, which will lead to the selection of one or more modeling techniques.
- Prepare data for analysis. Depending on the business question and proposed analysis methods, this step involves using specialized techniques to locate, access, clean and prepare the data for optimal results. In our multifaceted data world, that could mean data from transactional systems, unstructured text files and data warehouses.
- Explore data. Now it's time to explore the data in an interactive and visual fashion to quickly identify relevant variables, trends and relationships. (The shape of the data when variables are plotted out is called distribution of data. You can use shapes to identify the patterns.)
- Transform data and create models. A skilled analyst or modeler builds the model using statistical, data mining or text mining software, including the critical capability of transforming and selecting key variables. Models need to be built rapidly so modelers can use trial and error to find the model that produces the best results.
- Test and validate models. Once built, the model is registered, tested (or validated), approved and declared ready for use against your data. With a centralized model repository, you can store extensive documentation about the model, scoring code and associated metadata (data about the data) for collaborative sharing and version control necessary for auditing purposes.
- Deploy models. When approved for production use, the model is applied to new data to generate predictive insights.
- Monitor and assess models. The predictive performance of the model is monitored to ensure it is up to date and delivering valid results. If the model performance degrades, it's time to make changes. When it no longer works or serves a business need, it is retired.


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Even though the Yanks are looking for a DH, and Lance Berkman was available, there will be no return of "Fat Elvis" to the Bronx.
Berkman spent some time with the Yanks in 2010, hitting .255-1-9 in 37 games, OPS+ 90. 2010 was a rough year for Berkman, who had some injury issues and who only hit .248-14-58, OPS+ 112 that year. He rebounded in 2011 for the World Champion Cardinals, hitting .301-31-94, OPS+ 164, and was an All-Star and finished 7th in the MVP balloting. He played 1B and the corner OF spots.
But in 2012, Berkman had knee trouble again, and was limited to 32 games, hitting .259-2-7, OPS+ 126. For his career, the switch-hitting Berkman is a .296 hitter with an OPS+ of 146. His 162 game average is .296-32-108. He has 360 career HR—two more than Yogi and one less than Joe D. He has finished in the top 10 of MVP voting six times.
Berkman is also good friends with Andy Pettitte, with whom he was a teammate 2004-2006 and in 2010.
But the lure of his home state kept Berkman home. Berkman, a Texan, signed a deal with the Rangers. For most of his career, he was an Astro.
Although Berkman will be 37 next month, the switch-hitter would have been a fit at DH for the Yanks, especially if he could still play the field (1B/LF/RF) occasionally. But the contract Texas gave Berkman—one year, $11 MM with an option for 2014—was probably way more than the Yanks were willing to go. The Yanks apparently had some interest, but my guess is that they want someone on a deal like Raul Ibanez had last year—$1.1 MM with incentives. Heck, Chavez got $900K from the Yanks, Andruw Jones $1.5 MM. My guess is that if Berkman fell into that bracket, then the Yanks would scoop him up. But Texas' offer blew the Yanks out of the water.
Maybe the Yanks are still looking for a DH in that money bracket.
Jim Thome, 42, is still out there. That lefty bat does intrigue me. You can only imagine what Thome could have done with that short porch in his prime. Even without the short porch, Thome has 612 career HR. But Thome will be 43 in August, has no speed on the base paths and can't play the field. If only Thome can prove he can still play 1B or 3B, but he's only played in nine games in the field since 2005.
Thome hit .252-8-25 in 163 at bats in 2012. For his career, his 162 g. average is .276-39-108. He does strikeout a lot, but he also draws a lot of walks. (He's the active leader in both categories). His 162 g. average is 111 walks and 162 K.
In the last three years, Thome has made $1.5 MM, $3 MM and $1.25 MM.
The Yanks have an aging team already. I'm leery of getting a 42-year-old who can't play the field.
But his lefty bat is intriguing, and maybe his price range is, too.
Even though I'm leery of Thome, would it surprise me if the Yanks signed him? No.
If they did, they would be the first team with two active 600 HR guys on it (he and A-Rod).
You just wonder if they are then sacrificing youth and winning for age and milestones.
Thome: 612 HR. 1699 RBI.
A-Rod: 647 HR. 2901 hits. 1950 RBI (active leader in HR and RBI). With A-Rod going to be out for half the season, it doesn't look like he'll get the 14 HR to pass Willie Mays or the 99 hits for 3000. He could get RBI #2000 though.
Jeter: 3304 hits (active leader). He could get close to 3500 this year. Heck, if he has a year like he had in 2012, he could get #3500 this year.
Rivera: 608 saves (all-time leader). #650?
Pettitte: 245 wins. #250 should come this year.
Ichiro: 2606 hits (MLB only; added to Japan, it'd be over 3800).
Sabathia: 191 wins. #200 should come in mid-summer.
In addition, could Curtis Granderson become the ONLY Yankee other than Babe Ruth to hit 40 or more HR in three consecutive years? Ruth did it from 1926-1932.


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Title: History of the Scholars of Shen Zhou, Volume I
Short Title: Record of 2002
Original Author: Qu Hui
Keywords: history, sosz, forum, scholars, 2002
Description: The first volume in a series of articles detaling the history of the forum from 2002-2008.
History of the Scholars, Volume I (2002)
In the sixth month, on the fourteenth day, Scholars of Shen Zhou is established on Venture Domain Hosting by James and Jonathan Wu. Many of the original members migrate from Sain Cai's 5 Tigers Forum, an excellent forum that declined when the administrator had to attend to more important real-life issues. This same day, Lion's Mane, future forum administrator, joins the forum. On the twenty-first day, Maria, future forum administrator, joins the forum under the name Dragon_Girl. On the twenty-fifth day, Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII was released in North America for the Playstation 2.
In the seventh month, on the eighth day, the board goes down. On the twenty-second day, the board is restored using data from before the eighth. Posts and accounts created in that period are lost. On the twenty-fifth day, the link buttons for the forum are created.
In the eighth month, on the twenty-fifth day, the Honorable Lady Wu, future forum administrator, joins the forum.
In the ninth month, the first RP related to the board begins. This would lay the foundation for SimRTK to be founded the next year. On the thirtieth day, Dynasty Warriors 3 is released in North America for the Xbox.
In the tenth month, on the eighth day, the forum's database is corrupted. The database is restored on the nineteenth day. On the twenty-ninth day, the database is offline so a hard drive can be replaced.
In the eleventh month, the Honorable Lady Wu is voted Scholar of the Month. This marks the beginning of her rise to world domination. On the twentieth day, the forum is offline so that the motherboard can be replaced. On the twenty-third day, Rhiannon, future forum administrator, joins the forum under the name Wild-Eyes.
In the twelfth month, Mega Zarak is voted Scholar of the Month.


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If the Fed Acts, How Do You React? The Liftoff Effect on Capital Flows »
Volume/Issue: 2015/256
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Swarnali Ahmed
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 December 2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498367196.001
Keywords: Fed liftoffs, policy responses, policy framework, emerging market economies, interest, market, portfolio, interest rate, Monetary Policy (Targets, Instruments
After more than six years of ultra-low interest rates, a Fed liftoff (rate hike) is just a matter of time. This paper goes back to history to understand the spillover effect - or what is termed in the paper as the...


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It's been a rough school year for students at Wolfson High School, having lost two classmates to tragedies in less than three months.
"Whenever there is sudden grief or a sudden loss, it usually causes a lot of intense pain because there was no planning," psychologist Dr. Justin D'Arienzo said.
Students didn't plan for the death of their classmates 17-year-olds Jordan Davis or JaNay Jackson.
Davis was shot and killed last Friday night at a Southside gas station in a dispute over loud music coming from the SUV he was in. Jackson was killed in August when a car drove through a stop sign and into her bedroom.
That's two horrific deaths of promising Wolfson students within a few months of each other, both of which could have been prevented.
D'Arienzo says right now many students are probably in a state of disbelief.
"They don't really understand how this happened, is this real, and they probably expect to see their friend or friends return to school the next day just as usual," D'Arienzo said.
That's the hardest part for students and teachers at Wolfson -- knowing that Jackson (pictured right) and Davis won't be coming back. It's a reality Davis' English teacher, Ninon Rhome, is having a hard time imagining.
"The biggest thing for me coming back from Thanksgiving break is visualizing his seat empty," Rhome said Tuesday, the first day back from the break. "So probably tomorrow will be a lot more overwhelming than it was today."
Davis' reading teacher, Carolyn Aponte, got her students together to pray Tuesday.
"If he were still here, I'd still be hugging on him, encouraging, telling him I'll be there at your graduation," Aponte said. "Now, I'm going to be at his funeral, and that just rips me to the core."
It's going to be upsetting for many for quite a while, teachers and students said. Students are still grieving over the loss of Jackson in late August and now have to deal with losing Davis.
"It's not a pleasant day, by any means, and it's not something that's going to end for us any time soon," Wolfson Principal David Garner said. "We think of our students for the rest of the year and years to come."
"It's a lesson that any day could be your last and to really live life to the fullest and to make the best out of every event and choice," D'Arienzo said.
The Davis family will hold a visitation from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at the Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home at 11801 San Jose Blvd. The funeral will be held Saturday in Marietta, Ga.


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Fire and ancient forests belong together
The first time I walked through the burned part of western Montana's Lolo National Forest, smoke was still rising from its deep duff layer. It was a crisp bluebird October day in 2003, and I was leading a student monitoring team to document how the fire behaved as it raced through two different areas: the heavily logged lands of Plum Creek Timber Co., and the ancient spruce-fir forest on the adjacent Lolo National Forest.
As we looked over Plum Creek's land, it became clear why crews fighting this fire had dubbed their lands "the black desert." All we could see were burned clear-cuts crisscrossed with a network of newly exposed logging roads.
As we arrived at a remote Forest Service trailhead and began walking through the unlogged forest, the aroma of the still smoldering forest almost overpowered us as we took in the mysterious mosaic patterns made by fire as it had moved across the landscape.
While some people want us to think that all modern wildfires are bad, the truth is that our forests and wildlife evolved with fire, and that includes so-called "catastrophic" fire. Burnt forests are not the lifeless, unhealthy landscapes that some would like us to believe.
Earlier this past summer, Richard Hutto, director of the Avian Science Center at the University of Montana, said he'd become aware of one of nature's best-kept secrets -- that "there are some plant and animal species that one is hard-pressed to see anywhere outside a severely burned forest." Indeed, at least 60 species of birds and mammals use burned forests. While the logging industry might call burned forests "destroyed," many critters call these same forests home.
A few months after our monitoring trip, I received notice of the Forest Service's intent to log the Lolo as its first "Healthy Forests" project. Wouldn't you know it? The agency's plan was to cut down what was left of that same ancient spruce-fir forest that had burned or survived in such a beautiful mosaic.
At the time, Mark Rey, the former logging lobbyist who President Bush had picked to run the Forest Service, told a local paper that if environmental groups were successful in stopping these post-fire timber sales, "those moonscapes will stand as a monument to that idiocy."
Well, environmentalists were successful, and today, there are no monuments to our idiocy. Once the spring snows cleared, we organized a fieldtrip to the proposed logging site with forest officials and invited the public and media to come along. As our caravan finally came to rest far up in the mountains -- 15 miles from the nearest house -- I quickly got the sense that the forest supervisor knew this was not an appropriate place for a "healthy forests" logging project. A few weeks later, the timber sale was canceled.
Nowadays, when I return to this forest, it's with a rifle slung across my shoulder. Walking up the same trail in the cool, pre-dawn darkness, my headlight catching the steam from my quickening breath, I'm searching for elk.
Five years have passed since the wildfire, and as the sun rises, signs of a healthy and recovering ecosystem are everywhere: fir and lodgepole seedlings almost hip-high; the lightly charred bark of massive, fire-resident larch; the prehistoric call of the pileated woodpecker; the eerie bugle of a bull elk just over the ridge.
These are the healthy, recovering burnt forests that the logging lobbyists don't want you to know about, because these forests reveal a truth that belies their "moonscape" rhetoric.
As a childhood friend from Wisconsin and I finish quartering a cow elk, which was grazing on grasses and forbs rejuvenated by the wildfire, he turns to me and says, "These burned forests are nothing like I would have expected listening to way some people talk so negatively about wildfire. Thanks for sharing this amazing experience with me."
Our legs nearly buckle as we load 300 pounds of elk on our backs. We struggle through the backcountry and eventually reach the hiking trail through the old-growth spruce-fir forest, still standing as a monument to the healing powers of nature.
Matthew Koehler is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is the executive director of the WildWest Institute in Missoula, Montana.


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With the Savi Developer Program, developers can gain online access to component technologies and tools, including:
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- RFID Hardware Components, which enable developers to embed DASH-7 (ISO-18000-7) products into their own hardware and software products.
Online orders include access to the Savi Developer forum, hardware and software development tools, software source code, protocols for technical interfaces and OEM components for Savi's RFID readers and tags.
"This is a milestone event for Savi Technology and the industry because it helps to rapidly extend proven real-time solutions into existing and completely new supply chain, manufacturing or consumer goods markets," said Savi's David Stephens.
Tools available under Savi's program are composed of hardware and software. The hardware, which operates on the 433.92 MHz frequency, has proven to be a low-power technology with long data transmission ranges that perform in all kinds of harsh or heavy metal environments, and forms the backbone of the U.S. Department of Defense's In-Transit Visibility network -- the world's largest RFID cargo tracking system. Savi SmartChain software transforms automated data into actionable information to monitor the location, security and condition of assets while in-transit or on-site.
Savi Web Services are state-of-the art Web Services for developers who want to build Web Applications with Item Unique Identification IUID and Supply Chain Management capabilities. Savi SmartChain Adaptive Applications gives developers the framework to adapt software applications to their specific market needs. The Savi OEM Reader board allows users to build active RFID read capabilities into their own RFID products. The reader boards support both ANSI 256 and ISO 18000-7 (DASH7) standards, the latter of which the company helped to define. The Savi OEM Tag Module gives developers all the core components for an RFID tag, and enables tag-to-tag communications with GPS, Satellite Communications and other Automatic Identification and Data Collection devices.


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For the 2007 models, GMC decided to totally change up the look of both the Tahoe and Yukon models. It was a risky move, since the market was leaning towards vehicles that were designed to be more economical in nature. The move paid off, however, as the sales of both exceeded the expectations of GMC within the declining SUV market.
Many of the purchased SUVs ended up with big wheels. Israel Carmona of Santa Ana, CA., purchased his Yukon with the intentions of slapping some oversized chrome wheels on it. Israel bought the Yukon in brand new condition, fresh off the lot, and within two weeks of purchasing it, he took it in to have it painted cobalt blue. This was going to be Israel's first build in the big wheel scene. "At the time, everyone was fixing up Tahoes, so that's why I decided to be different and go with the Yukon," he explains. Many people in the big wheel scene were throwing candy paint and silver leafing on their rides but in his quest to not follow the crowd, Israel decided to take his Yukon to Izzy of Tintaz in Buena Park, CA. Izzy threw multiple candys in a variety of patterns to give the Yukon that Lowrider flavor to help Israel in his quest.
"I know it's a new style, but I would like to thank Lowrider Magazine for giving us an opportunity to display our cars since we don't really have anyone else that will feature our rides."
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"Da Kon"
Owner: Israel Carmona
Vehicle: 2007 GMC Yukon
City/State: Santa Ana, CA
Club: Xplizit
Engine: 5.3L with Optima battery.
Body/Paint: With the cobalt blue paint already on, Izzy of Tintaz in Buena Park, CA. started laying patterns by using multiple candy paints. A grill by Tiarra Luxury Grilles was added.
Interior: Angel from Bellflower, CA. added the custom stingray interior.
Sounds: Advance Car Creations of Garden Grove, CA. installed the Pioneer head unit, JL Audio amps, JL Audio mids and Kicker subwoofers.
Setup: Adam at MIC in Montclair, CA. installed the airbag setup with two Optima batteries.
Tires: Lexani 275/25R28.
Wheels: Lexani LX2 28's.